Hi, the server and us appreciate you and your team being vigilant to protect the server. Game breaking cheats would ruin the server and IRL economy for us.
I have talked to staff thoroughly, and would like to address a few of these topics you brought up.
First of all, we are not duping. I can understand how you see the entire economy value and look at our wealth and say it’s not possible. It is definitely possible.
As for the Iron Golems & the magma creams, our team has purchased a large amount of crate keys. Common, uncommon and legendary. No, we’re not proud of being a Pay2Win team, but we’re not embarrassed for this either. I would predict that our team has opened anywhere from 100-150 Legend Keys alone. Did we get all 32+ Iron Golems from these keys? No, we bought some too. While everyone else was fighting for island top, we were buying them off auction, and doing IRL deals for spawners that were otherwise unobtainable from the crates. Also, we got about 6 Villager Spawners from crate keys early on as well, and traded these for 2 Iron Golems + Rabbit/Chicken per iron golem. We likely had about 70Mil of Spawners by Day 2.
Also, we had 16 team members that grinded hard on the cobble gens to earn us money in the first 5 days. These members were very valuable, but we ended up kicking about half after they were too comfortable with our wealth to grind anymore. We appreciate their efforts, and will help them get started on their own, but it had to be done.
As for the cow spawners, we found out from some of the top players that they were so good. We ended up selling every single chicken & rabbit spawner we had saved up. We ended up having about 64 cows soon after.
As for how we make money, I guess I could shed some light on that. Many of you think my shop is expensive, and I will agree that it is more expensive than others. But, it was one of the first shops. My supply was in huge demand. The shop makes about 3Mil per day on its own with everything it has to offer. Whenever I am on, I am always grinding cow spawners. A 15K cow makes you about $130K, so having almost 8 stacks makes you a LOT. Especially when all of your members grind constantly and always spend their money on spawners.
As for the zombie pigman, we bought 2 for 2.5Mil from 1 player, and 2 from /shop for 4Mil each. They aren’t as good as we have hoped they would be, so we will only be buying them for much cheaper from others in the future.
As for the magma cubes, we got about 5 from crates, and bought 12 from a single player that sold them all to us for 1mil.
As for the creepers, I believe they were all obtained from crates or /reclaims from our team.
As for the rabbit and Chicken, we sold the rabbits because we found out the half raw rabbit glitch wasn’t a glitch, and that it was a waste of time to grind them. The chicken we AFKed to make a profit shop out of 75,000 chickens. Then, we realized they dropped 90% less eggs than last season, and that their drops sold for less, so we removed them as well.
Well, how do we have 400+ cow spawners?
We have been buying them over and over and over. We did some IRL deals for other players that had spawners into the deals/money. We also did IRL deals for cow spawners themselves. But for the mast majority, they’re from our team grinding. 1 player has been selling cows for 100k each for a week now. We have been buying repeatedly. Staff are aware of this player who is not on our island. If they are duping, I would hope staff will find out. But for now, we will keep buying. 5mins of cow killing = 1 spawner. We will keep buying them for anywhere from 100-350k until we get to a full 16 stacks.
As for our money going up and down, I can assure you that it does. Especially my balance. I spend likely 5-10mil per day that I play a full day. I don’t allow myself to logout until my balance recovers. I have gotten to a peak of 40.7Mil. It went down about 3mil to buy grass and packed ice alone.
As for the IRL deals and such... We have done a fair share in both directions. We do IRL deals for others when they are hugely profitable for us (the other player overpaying), and we do IRL deals to rankup ourselves when we are underpaying/market price paying. (Hugely in our favor)
I know we might seem like nons to the seasoned skyblock guys, but we have been running the survival server much in the same way. We encourage the competition, and just want to do things like we usually do. I have the largest public farm on survival with 7 Billion worth of spawners, and Nathan has 2Billion sitting on baltop #1. I have led the most in game deals on survival, totaling over $2000USD, so we are very proud of that. We took the best survival players we could find to make a dream team.
Also, I am aware that many think my island member scammed someone and I have seen the evidence on both sides. I can’t come to a final conclusion with undeniable proof, so I haven’t taken action against this member. Our team knows that this is not the way be do business, and that is not the way to gain the respect of the community. So if you see anyone on my team attempting something like this please bring it up to me.
We’re sorry if we came off as toxic, but we are just giving what we are receiving as we are not used to this type of thing on survival where we are frankly elite players.
Also, a lot of you mentioned being banned from our island. There is a method behind this. We hid our island from the top 10 /is top teams by banning them so they couldn’t see what we were doing to make so much money. It’s not personal, but we didn’t want people to see how OP Cow spawners are compared to the others, or how we are making music disks with mobs not always being hostile. But since everything is out in the open, we have no issues removing every player from our ban list.
Currently, our island is under major renovations. We are removing every single thing besides our egg, cactus, and melon farms. We are making a very large 200x200 terraformed Area with a large castle in the middle with the shops being much larger, as well as a more organized public grinder with room for expansion. The shop will be back soon, and our island will be fully available to the public at that time.
If you ever need to reach me or want to ask any other questions, you’re welcome to contact me at ZLKN#5524 on discord. I look forward to getting to know you all better.
Cheers,
ZLKN
